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B-17G Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group in flight, Summer-Fall 1944. Photo 2 of 2. Far aircraft was named “Sleepy Time Gal.” | General Joseph Stilwell boarding a transport aircraft at the airport in New Delhi, India for Chongqing, China, Sep 1944 | German airman putting on his gear in an airfield, France or Belgium, Aug-Sep 1944; note tail of He 111 aircraft in background | LCol Jimmy Stewart, 2nd Bomb Wing Executive Officer, speaks with Maj John Dowswell in front of Dowswell’s B-24J Liberator “Betty” at RAF Hethel, Norfolk, England, Sept 1944. Dowswell had just piloted his crippled aircraft back to England from Germany. |
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P-47D “Tony” of the 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron at Boxted, England, United Kingdom, late 1944. Note the ‘WW’ on the tail indicating ‘War Weary’ aircraft. Only ‘WW’ planes were used in Rescue Squadrons | P-51D prototype fighter in flight, fall 1944; this particular prototype was modified from P-51B aircraft with serial number 43-12102 | SB2C-1C Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 2 has its landing gear tangled in the arresting cables after a landing on USS Hornet (Essex-class), Mar-Sep 1944. | SBD Dauntless and F4U-1A Corsair aircraft of US Marine Corps group MAG-22 at Engebi Island, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1944 |
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Spitfire LF VIII of 451 Squadron RAAF with USN blimp K-112 of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at French naval air base, Cuers-Pierrefeu, near Toulon, France, Sep 1944. | United States Army A-20 Havoc on a bombing raid against the oil storage facilities at Boela (now Bula) on Serem Island west of New Guinea in the Dutch East Indies, fall 1944. | United States Navy or Coast Guard beaching crews working around a PBM-5 Mariner on the ramp of an unknown seaplane base in the Atlantic area, 1944-45. Note the unusual squadron insignia on the nose. | US Army African-American aviators crew chief Staff Sergeant Alfred D. Norris and pilot Captain William T. Mattison prepared for a mission with a P-51 Mustang fighter, Italy, circa Sep 1944 |
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US Army African-American Staff Sergeant William Accoo, crew chief of a P-51 Mustang aircraft, washed the aircraft he was in charge of, Italy, circa Sep 1944 | US Army troops trying load a Jeep into the side door of a Horsa I glider. A combat load would have backed the Jeep in. The Horsa II nose section was hinged and swung out of the way for straight-in loading. | US Marine Corps F4U-1 Corsair fighter with drop tanks, Gaudalcanal, Solomon Islands, Sep 1944 | P-40 Warhawk fighter 'Little Joe II' at the Kunming airfield in Yunnan, China, 1 Sep 1944 |
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US Army personnel observing dummy Junkers Ju-88 bombers left behind at the airfield at Épinay, France, 2 Sep 1944. | Spitfire HF.VII fighter being used for evaluation of stability and flight control by the Americans at Langley Research Center, Virginia, United States, 7 Sep 1944; note B-24 in far left background | B-24 Liberators of the 425th Bomb Squadron destroying the Dai Giang Railroad Bridge in French Indo-China (now Vietnam), Sep 8 1944. | C-47 Skytrains of the 439th Troop Carrier Group preparing to transport the 82nd Airborne to Nijmegen for Operation Market Garden, Juvincourt, France, Sep 8-17 1944 |
5,139 items in this album on 257 pages.